Xu Yang concealed his aura and walked on for a while. Soon, he spotted a scene of devastation in a mountain hollow.
A fierce battle had taken place here. Several wolf-like exotic beasts lay dead, blood covering the ground. An exotic beast resembling a wild boar was tearing into their carcasses with its head lowered.
The boar-like beast was enormous, almost as tall as a man. With its broad shoulders and wide back, it looked like a horse-drawn carriage.
Its entire body was black, its bristles like steel needles, its hide gleaming with a metallic sheen.
Most striking were the two tusks jutting from the corners of its mouth. They glowed faintly, protruding like a pair of daggers, sharp and deadly.
Nearly all the dead beasts had wounds pierced through by those dagger-like tusks, their bellies ripped open and intestines torn apart.
"A Stone-Cracking Pig!" Xu Yang recognized the beast at once.
Jin Yu had introduced them during class. Stone-Cracking Pigs had thick hides, sturdy flesh, and boundless strength. Their hides were harder than iron or steel, and supposedly even ordinary Spirit Weapons could not pierce them.
Their greatest asset was their strength. When a Stone-Cracking Pig went berserk, it could smash a house-sized boulder with a single charge. Its power was terrifying, and ordinary martial artists at the same realm could not kill one.
Xu Yang could also see that it had killed five or six exotic beasts here without suffering so much as a scratch.
Its aura is stronger than the Twin-Horned Tiger's. Its essence blood should be better, too.
One of his reasons for entering the mountains was to gather cultivation resources. Now that he had finally encountered an exotic beast at third heavenly origin, he naturally would not let it slip away. Besides its essence blood,